Video tries

I'm going to try to post a couple of videos to see how they work. Don't watch them if you are subject to motion sickness. This is only a test.

Snow day

There must be seven or eight inches of snow out there, and the sky has patches of vivid blue.

Bunnies on the loose

C. went to feed the rabbits today, and found the little guys bopping around the room. They've left the nest box for adventure and solid food. Left, the little grey/fawn one (working name Plum) meets her dad. He was quite interested.

I think they're all girls

The little bunnies. I read you can tell when they are three to four weeks old, so I gave it a try. It's not easy with bifocals in a poorly lit room when they are so tiny, but that's my best guess.

Below, I'm quaking in my big snow boots as the scary mama rabbit checks me out. No, really. She is fierce.

Bottom, the little fawn girl thinks about hopping out of the nest box while Chrys fixes me with a laser eye.

She was a (mostly) good dog

We said goodbye to Badeaux today. Twelve years ago we picked her out of a litter of 10 red bone coon hound/lab mix pups at the shelter. She was the prettiest. Our old dachshunds raised her up and tried to teach her to be brave, but she didn't have it in her. She was afraid of parked cars, cardboard boxes, loud noises, fireworks, thunder.... She spent every July 4 in a corner of the bathroom, panting and quivering.

I changed the headline to mostly good, because I remember now she did bite people. Just three, or maybe four, and only hard enough to bruise. And she did remove Jack's eye (he never forgave her). She was energetic, protective and a little squirrelly.

She loved sniffing around in the woods when we went huckleberry picking. And she loved her home-cooked dinners. She humored us by playing "Got Your Nose." She romped like a pup until she came down with hideous monster mouth cancer just a few months ago.

On her last day she had ice cream and wieners, and we fed her bits of Lindors chocolates while we waited for the vet to come. Why the hell not?

I'll miss you, Ba-doofus. Ba-dingleberry. Ba-diddlehopper. Ba-doober.

Above, her baby picture as she stands head and shoulders above the rest of the team. :) That's, from left, Debbie, Mikki, Badeaux and Lulu (one of the seven great dogs). Below, she's playing with Rosebud, another of the seven. And below that, she's on the kids' porch with Jeep.

Three-week-old bunnies!

And they are absolutely charming. We pulled the nest box out (after bribing mama Chrys with cashews) and the little guys came to the front of the box. Chrys gave us about two minutes with the babies before she got crabby and kicked us out.

Domesticated mushrooms, and wood

The Fungi Perfecti mushroom kit is fruiting again. The first shot is from Thursday, the second, Friday. They grow a  lot in a day! We had one last night on open-faced sandwiches, broiled with cheese and sweet onions on homemade wheat bread. Mmmm.

Em and KC came up and we got another month of wood from our favorite DNR spot. We broke in the new Jonsered saw. Em says it goes through wood like buttah. Our old one (bought used on Ebay) turned out to be seriously dead.

 


KC cleaned the creosote out of the chimney topper, below. Em spent some time with the baby bunnies, and with Badeaux, our big red dog who doesn't have much time left. It was a good day.